Patrick joined The Ben Kinsella Trust in 2016 from Victim Support where he had been Deputy Director for London. The Ben Kinsella Trust was founded by Brooke Kinsella MBE and her family following the murder of her brother Ben in an unprovoked knife attack in 2008. The Ben Kinsella Trust campaigns for justice and action for those affected by knife crime and delivers choices and consequences anti-knife educational workshops to schools and youth groups from its sites in Islington and Barking & Dagenham in London and at the National Justice Museum in Nottingham. The Trust’s exhibition and its workshops are visited by over 4,000 young people every year. A further 20,000 young people use the Trust’s online resources each year.

As the CEO, Patrick has grown The Ben Kinsella Trust from its roots in Islington, North London, to one of the country’s leading anti-knife crime charities. He is a regular contributor on TV and in the press campaigning for the adoption of a public health approach to tackling youth violence.

Patrick was a member of the Home Office’s Serious Violence Crime Taskforce, which was chaired by the Home Secretary and the Home Office’s Social Media Action Group. In April 2019, Patrick was invited to No.10 by the Prime Minister as a member of the Serious Youth Violence Summit.

Karina has more than 10 years’ experience of working directly with people impacted by violence and exploitation; starting within the prison system and later within the voluntary sector with high-risk victims and children of domestic abuse and exploitation, as well as the perpetrators, supporting Police forces and Safeguarding pilot models. Karina went on to work within Local Government, as a Head of Community Safety and leading pan London initiatives in response to county lines.

For the past 5 years, Karina has developed into the role as Director of Strategy and Operations within London’s VRU, being an instrumental founding leader in the development and sustainability of the first VRU in England and Wales.

Karina has always been keen to collaborate with local communities and wider stakeholders to learn about new initiatives and evidence led approaches. This has led to advising on international violence and vulnerability policies as well as enabling new award-winning community programmes to develop.

Andy is a PIP 3 Senior investigating officer and has worked for West Yorkshire Police for over 21 years.  He is currently seconded to the national police chief’s council Serious and organised crime (SOC) portfolio office.

As the programme lead for delivering the SOC local strategy within a local policing space, he leads on the ambitious delivery of Clear, hold and build (CHB) across all forces in England and Wales by the end of March 2024.

Andy was the lead responsible officer for the initial pilot site in Bradford which brought together a collaborative partnership to tackle serious and organised crime.  This led to significant reductions in recorded crime, dismantling of organised crime groups and better communication and engagement with a hard-to-reach community.

Previously, he was a county lines coordinators within the Yorkshire and Humber regional organised crime unit.  He worked closely with the national county lines coordination centre to identify children and vulnerable people and target organised crime groups who exploited children and young people by preying on their vulnerability.

Andy is a real advocate of collaborative partnership working which focuses on a whole systems response to target the totality of harm, vulnerability, and risk within communities.

Toks is currently is the Senior District Crown Prosecutor responsible for youth casework and advocacy on the CPS London South Magistrates’ Court team. He was Acting Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor on CPS London South from March 2022 until September 2022 and notably dealt with some of the cases arising out of the Sarah Everard vigil at Clapham Common.

He qualified as a solicitor in 1998 and became Borough Crown Prosecutor (BCP) for Tower Hamlets in 2007. Toks was a member of the commission set up to examine the safety of young persons in Tower Hamlets and played an active role in the establishment of the Domestic Violence Court at Thames Magistrates Court.

In 2009 Toks became BCP for Hackney. He forged strong links with the police managers on that borough and the protocols set up to tackle the extensive gang crime in Hackney were adopted across London as good practice.

He became SDCP for the Blackfriars & Wood Green Team in 2011. Wood Green Crown Court was one of the Courts designated to deal with the August 2011 disorder cases.

Toks remains a keen Magistrates’ court advocate in spite of his managerial duties and has prosecuted at every Magistrates’ court in London, including the first all night court at Highbury Corner during the London riots in August 2011.

Toks is a member of the national CPS Modern Slavery Leads Network and has delivered training on Modern Slavery and the section 45 defence to CPS prosecutors, Magistrates and Police Officers. Furthermore Toks has delivered a podcast for CPS prosecutors on the application of the four stage test in youth cases where the section 45 defence has been raised.

In addition to being the area lead for youth casework, Toks also leads on football offences on the CPS London South Magistrates’ Court team.

In June 2021, Toks was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list for his services to law and order.

Evan works for St Giles Trust, a charity that supports ex-offenders and other vulnerable groups. He has developed and works on a range of projects including SOS Gangs, County Lines, Family Support and Through the Gates. He now focuses on developing Gangs/ SYV/ county lines projects across England and Wales.

Evan has worked in homelessness and offender services since the late 80s both in the statutory and voluntary sectors. His roles have included resettlement, shared housing management, floating support, street outreach and housing allocation.

St Giles Trust was among the first agencies to identify and campaign on county lines, raising awareness and are now delivering county lines support services in London and elsewhere.

St Giles trains and employs former service users to deliver its services; providing credible and capable staff who clients want to engage with; this is the Peer Advisor model and runs through all our work.

Emma has over 20 years of experience delivering, developing, and managing services for children and young people across the UK. Emma joined Catch22 in 2015 as the Senior Service Manager for our emotional wellbeing services, and in 2022 she was promoted to Director of Young People & Families. In the role Emma oversees a wide range of integrated support services designed to help resolve complex difficulties experienced by young people and their families/carers. Support is provided to people who find themselves in a range of circumstances; they may be missing from home, a victim of child exploitation and/or have emotional, housing or substance misuse issues. Prior to Catch22, Emma trained as a paediatric nurse at City University in London, before undertaking a career change in her mid-20s. She began working in residential children’s homes as a Senior Residential Social Worker before joining The Children’s Society as a Youth Participation Manager. After nearly 7 years at The Children’s Society, Emma worked as a Youth Development Manager for The Hyde Group, one of the largest housing associations in England with over 50,000 homes across London, the Southeast and the Midlands. Emma lives in Brighton with her husband Rob and 5-year-old daughter Alice.

Martin P Griffiths CBE DL FRCA FRCS is a consultant Trauma and Vascular Surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust where he developed the nation’s first ward-based intervention programme for the victims of interpersonal injury. He is also National Clinical Director for Violence Reduction (NHS England) & Clinical Director for Violence Reduction Network (NHS London) and has led the expansion of the public-health approach to violence reduction in the capital. He has an interest in integrating peer groups in the co-design of community and healthcare-based prevention and education programmes

Patrick joined The Ben Kinsella Trust in 2016 from Victim Support where he had been Deputy Director for London. The Ben Kinsella Trust was founded by Brooke Kinsella MBE and her family following the murder of her brother Ben in an unprovoked knife attack in 2008. The Ben Kinsella Trust campaigns for justice and action for those affected by knife crime and delivers choices and consequences anti-knife educational workshops to schools and youth groups from its sites in Islington and Barking & Dagenham in London and at the National Justice Museum in Nottingham. The Trust’s exhibition and its workshops are visited by over 4,000 young people every year. A further 20,000 young people use the Trust’s online resources each year.

As the CEO, Patrick has grown The Ben Kinsella Trust from its roots in Islington, North London, to one of the country’s leading anti-knife crime charities. He is a regular contributor on TV and in the press campaigning for the adoption of a public health approach to tackling youth violence.

Patrick was a member of the Home Office’s Serious Violence Crime Taskforce, which was chaired by the Home Secretary and the Home Office’s Social Media Action Group. In April 2019, Patrick was invited to No.10 by the Prime Minister as a member of the Serious Youth Violence Summit.